Former President Donald Trump stunned political experts on both sides of the aisle Monday with an on-air rant about people with "bad genes."Trump, during an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, relied on what critics called the rhetoric of eugenics — the discredited philosophy behind...

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  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
    541·
    1 month ago

    It’s so sad so many will brush this off.

    I cant be more ashamed then I am of my fellow country men. I knew shit was wrong growing up. I did my best to stay out of their way but to see it so clearly in their politics I just can’t anymore. Americans are a ravenous people. We harbor them. We protect them. That is what we are.

    Eugenics getting freely discussed by a presidential candidate. Shame on me. Shame on all of us.

    • Seleni@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 month ago

      Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

      In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

      -Sir Terry Pratchett